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Later on, the Yakimas were driven back by the whites; so that there have been three conquests of the lower Willamette Valley since the fall of the ancient race,—two Indian conquests before the white.

From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Balch, Frederic Homer

Anderson packed for the Club in its tour of Tahoma last year, with three or four Yakimas and their horses.

From The Discards by McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil

The Yakima Indian Reservation has timber valued at more than three million dollars, and yet the Yakimas have no way of making domestic or commercial use of this wealth.

From The Discards by McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil

The Yakimas and Klikelats inhabit the region north of the Dalles, between the Cascade Range and the Columbia.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.

In Toppenish a few of the Yakimas were informed of the stranger's personnel as he and his "escorts," or "body guard," as one observer commented, stepped into the Agency car and was whirled away.

From The Discards by McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil